Spirituality


 * //Definitions://**
 * Having to do with deep, often religious, feelings and beliefs, including a person’s sense of peace, purpose, and connection to others.

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People living deeply have no fear of death. - Anais Nin "Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude."- [|Denis Waitley]
 * The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. - Albert Einstien
 * What Einstein is saying in this quote, is that if one lives their life oblivious to the wonders around them they are not really living at all. He compares an individual who excludes mysterious from their life to a dead body.
 * This quote demonstrates the idea of spirituality and how it can let one overcome death because faith allows one believe in a place after death and that one will be ok.
 * Denis Waitley is basically trying to say that the spirtuality of happiness can not be obtained by money or consumd by mouth or even earned like a salary, but can only be obtain by your inner spirtuality. It is a feeling that is experienced through life and love of life and family. It is the gratitude and grace that you give to God and that God returns back to you. It is the feeling you get with every moment you spend awake and conciece of your surroundings.

"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."- Anais Nin (John Guyer) People living deeply have no fear of death"- Anais Nin o This quote is referring to how many spiritual people seek a better life after death. This is seen in many religions and people find happiness through them.
 * Although you can gain knowledge all your life there is still more wonder and mystery than there are things that can be explained. Being spiritual is a necessity to understanding those things that can not be explained
 * This quote serves to imply that people who live deeply and are in touch with spirituality never fear death because they form their own deep beliefs on life. Being spiritual gives people an understanding on death which in turn makes the concept of death look less scary.
 * "Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love."
 * Becoming one with nature can instill spirituality within a person. Show appreciation for small, various things on the earth can prepare a person for being appreciative all the time. Attempting to understand a difficult and infinite part of life can lead to a more effective and efficient self-discovery.
 * "Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual." ~David Steindl-Rast
 * This is a very simple quote, but it carries an in depth interpretation. This quote states that spirituality and how spirtitual one is depends on the person and what they are interested in. Rast is trying to explain that spirituality has numerous interpretations and one can and is spiritual when they are the happiest, doing something that they love to do.
 * “[|Without faith, hope and trust, there is no promise for the future, and without a promising future, life has no direction, no meaning and no justification.]” -Adlin Sinclair
 * Those with no spirituality are doomed to have no future. Those with sprituality will be successful and their life will end up having meaning in the long run.
 * “ That is happiness; to be dissolved into something completely great.”-Willa Cather


 * The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. ~Anais Nin
 * The more spiritual one is with themselves, the more they will learn about the truth of life itself. Those with spirituality will be more knowledgeable.

This quote is saying that what you think depends on you and what your spirit believes in. To change your way of thinking you have to change your sprituality.
 * “ [|You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.] ”